St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. Bishop

This suit was instituted in the Lawrence County Circuit Court by the appellee, Mrs. Orel Bishop, as administratrix of the estate of B. Bishop, deceased, under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act to recover damages for the death of appellee’s husband, who was injured and killed about one mile north of Seligman, Missouri, about 12:32 in the morning of July 4,1928, while in the service of appellant as a brakeman and while in the performance of his duty as such brakeman on one of appellant’s freight trains engaged in interstate commerce. The suit was for the loss of contributions and maintenance…